The Writers Guild of America has released its nominations for the best-written videogames of 2008, and the nominees are rather interesting. Three of the games highly deserve their nominations (in my humble opinion): Fallout 3, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Tomb Raider: Underworld, but the inclusion of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 and Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble are mindboggling.

It can be noted that only games penned by writers that belong to the WGA were eligible to be nominated. Hence, I believe, the odd list.

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Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA LA). Writer: Haris Orkin. Story Producer: Mical Pedriana.

Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!(Mousechief). Writing: Keith Nemitz. Additional Writing: Adrianne Ambrose.

Fallout 3(Bethesda Game Studios). Lead Writer: Emil Pagliarulo. Quest Writing: Erik J. Caponi, Brian Chapin, Jon Paul Duvall, Kurt Kuhlmann, Alan Nanes, Bruce Nesmith, and Fred Zeleny. Additional Quest Writing: Nate Ellis, William Killeen, Mark Nelson, and Justin McSweeney.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (LucasArts). Writers: Haden Blackman, Shawn Pitman, John Stafford and Cameron Suey.

Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos). Story: Eric Lindstrom and Toby Guard. Screenplay: Eric Lindstrom.